A Russian state TV news channel has hosted a sinister discussion about the merits of nuclear attacks on some of Europe's biggest cities, revealing missile strikes would take just minutes to hit their targets.
The broadcast, which aired on Channel One's 60 Minutes show last Thursday (local time), featured simulations of missiles being fired at London, Paris and Berlin from a military base in Russian exclave Kaliningrad.
Host Olga Skabeyeva said a Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile launched there would reach London in 202 seconds, Paris in 200 seconds and Berlin in just 106 seconds.
The discussion took place amid the backdrop of Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, and ever-increasing pressure on President Vladimir Putin's regime from the West to put an end to a war that has already caused widespread death and destruction.
During the broadcast Aleksey Zhuravlyov, who chairs the nationalist Rodina party, said Russia would only need to fire one Sarmat missile at the UK and "the British Isles will be no more".
"They're accusing us of state terrorism," he raged, before host Evgeny Popov interrupted to point out the UK also has nuclear weapons and a missile attack on them would result in more death everywhere.
"No one will survive in this war when you propose a Sarmat strike. Do you understand that no one will survive? No one on the planet."
"We'll start with a blank slate," Zhuravlyov replied. "The missiles can't be intercepted. Their abilities are limited. They say they can shoot it [a Sarmat missile] down - we'll see about that."
It was at this point that a graphic popped up on screen and the hosts discussed how it would be a matter of just minutes from the launch of a Sarmat missile in Kaliningrad to it hitting the likes of London, Paris and Berlin.
"They need to be shown this picture," Zhuravlyov said. "Guys, look at this picture, count the seconds - can you make it? Hello, it's already here.
"That's the way. Let them think about it. Get a stopwatch, count out 220 seconds - that's how you talk to them. They don't understand anything else."
Last week, Russia ran a successful test of its Sarmat missile and Putin later bragged that it is the world's most advanced and "capable of overcoming all modern means of anti-missile defence".
"This truly unique weapon will strengthen the combat potential of our armed forces, reliably ensure the security of Russia from external threats, and make those who - in the heat of aggressive rhetoric - try to threaten our country think twice," he said.
